Technology News

The First Reviews of Apple's iPad on Sale Today

Source: All About Jazz
April 3, 2010

The early reviews for the iPad are in, and they're certainly going to make Steve Jobs happy. Apple handed out iPads to a few select publications a couple of days early, and the critical consensus is overwhelmingly positive. The usual reviewers from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, as well as a few surprising newcomers to the Apple early reviews circuit, all praised the iPad for its epically long battery life (over 12 hours), impressive speed ...

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Guvera Launches Quietly in U.S.

Source: HypeBot
April 2, 2010

Ad supported music service Guvera entered public beta yesterday, but without many of its key features including activated. The site went live in Australia, where the company is based, several weeks ago.

When its fully operational, Guvera's model goes beyond the “watch an ad and get a download" model by engaging the user more deeply and only with brands that they are likely to have interest in. Thus, registration for Guvera begins with a fairly lengthy questionnaire that identifies the ...

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Twitter Redesigns Home Page, Shows Top Tweets

Source: HypeBot
April 2, 2010

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ABC Shows to Stream on iPad

Source: All About Jazz
April 2, 2010

Disney has cut a deal with Apple to make full-length episodes of ABC shows available for streaming on the iPad.

Deal announced Thursday includes a wealth of content and iPad applications for ABC, ESPN and Disney-related content. The big news is the extension of full-length web streaming of most ABC skeins, including web magnets “Lost" and “Grey's Anatomy," to Apple's tablet device, which hits stores on Saturday. “The iPad provides a very compelling consumer experience, and we are pleased to ...

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Google Enabled 3rd Party Developers Access to Your Email Without Asking

Source: Michael Ricci
April 2, 2010

You may or may not be excited by the acronyms OAuth and IMAP/SMTP, but the combination of them all together is very exciting news.

Google Code Labs announced this afternoon that it has just enabled 3rd party developers to securely access the contents of your email without ever asking you for your password. If you're logged in to Gmail, you can give those apps permission with as little as one click. What does that mean? It means mashups based on ...

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Why We Are Obsessed with the iPad

Source: All About Jazz
April 2, 2010

Yes, the iPad has fewer features than a comparably priced netbook. Yes, its tied to an app store controlled by a single company that has proven to be both capricious and prudish in the kinds of content it approves. And yes, it wont run Adobe Flash, instantly crippling many websites. Instead of living inside a box, content takes over the device. There's almost no noticeable interface.But the iPad is an important device just the same, because its simple and its ...

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Google: Online Attacks Aimed at Vietnam's Critics

Source: Michael Ricci
April 2, 2010

HANOI, Vietnam -- Google Inc. accused Vietnam on Wednesday of stifling political dissent with cyberattacks, the latest complaint by the Internet giant against a communist regime following a public dispute with China over online censorship. Like China, Vietnam tightly controls the flow of information and has said it reserves the right to take “appropriate action" against Web sites it deems harmful to national security. The cyberattacks targeted “potentially tens of thousands," a posting on Google's online security blog said. It ...

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Google Fires at Apple, Integrates Flash into Chrome Browser

Source: All About Jazz
April 2, 2010

Google continues to stake out its territory online. The search-and-advertising giant announced Tuesday that it will bundle Adobe's Flash player with downloads of the Chrome browser, putting Google in sharper opposition to Apple -- and giving Adobe a powerful ally. Google's decision to throw its weight behind Flash is an attempt to protect its turf -- the internet -- and strengthen its Android and Chrome operating systems for mobile phones, tablets and notebooks. By contrast, Apple's iPhone and upcoming iPad ...

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